I wanted to live this drama. It started well with an amazing cinematography and certain charm. Then it was a whirlwind of stereotypes, & cliches.
Where should i start?
We can easily guess who is the long lost sister Xi and ofc the script made her killed her own father. Then we can guess who is there long lost brother Qi Feng!
The villain is such a cliche. The second male lead Chong Zhao was set up to be this obsessive man who ends up in this live triangle, repeating same arguments for 20 episodes to have his childhood sweetheart back.
But… we could pass all this because of the magical decor & landscapes but everything took the wrong turn at episode 20 when they went to the Fox realm and in 2 episodes we had 3 people who sacrifices themselves in the name of love and especially Mu Jiu who asked Fan Yue to kill him for him to retrieve the water stone and that he can leave happy with Bai Shuo! Tian Huo is then very understanding and they all cry the death of Mu Jiu whose sacrifice was finally enough to calm down all the fox spirits and ofc the lead characters can continue their adventures!
But based on the characters, if someone killed Fan Yue or Bai Shuo for the same reason, he would have become part of the revenge list! So it doesn’t make sense at all.
The drama became a succession of cliches where complexity of characters was lost and ended up being a big mess and lot of contradictions in the emotions that were portrayed! Complexity doesn’t mean chaos!

Finally, as mentioned there are a lot of repetitions in the story as you can tell that the characters were not well thoughts and so to compensate cliches were added!

And can we talk about the bgm with the swoosh…. Bam! Every time a character says something to emphasize on it?? It is so annoying 🙄